Jai Jai Noire's blog

This interview, shot May 2013 in Oakland, CA begins to introduce an idea that has been floating through my mind the past several years around the need for community colleges (in particular) to include training on cooperatives in their business programs, not as a form of "kinder, gentler capitalism" but as community-based, capital subordinated business models hewing to the seven International Cooperative Principles. The unemployed have headed back to community colleges to upgrade skills or to learn new skills. One of our local community colleges has a trades program.